tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Philosophy has a WEIRD people problem too: “we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy-of-science/article/hasty-generalizations-are-pervasive-in-experimental-philosophy-a-systematic-analysis/27AF62B58334B5120F3317CE9E6259C7

Alexey Navalny’s co-defendant Daniel Kholodny is just one of Russia’s estimated 600 political prisoners. In his letter from a penal colony, Kholodny explains why letters and postcards from the outside (and even from abroad) matter so much to inmates.
https://t.co/wB5VVu0y1l

From the observational point of view, the situation has dramatically improved over the years, and now some of the most spectacular images by modern telescopes are of radio galaxies.

They show a broad variety of magneto-fluido dynamical instabilities, perturbations and interactions with the medium, unexpected threads, edges, and even more weird stuff.

Look at this one:

Företag som inte ens stöder vanliga jäkla diakriter bör förgöras.

Most CS degrees have students do a "traffic light" exercise at some point: build an model of an intersection, run the stoplights.

Those lessons sometimes ask questions like "Are there pedestrians in your model? Maybe bikes? How about buses? Exactly who lives in the neighbourhood, do they relies on public transit? Et cetera.

A question I like to ask students, that always gets a lot of uncomfortable silence is: at what point do these decisions stop being software, and start being public policy?

Hans och Barbara Bergströms finansierar medier som sprider konspirationsteorier, förintelseförnekande och nazistisk propaganda, enligt Expos kommande nummer. https://mailchi.mp/1c1474c8de0c/tack-8244461

PSA for #Peertube instance owners:

Block/ignore the peertube.se instance immediately. This is run by and used by the Nordfront organization for Nazi propaganda.

It's the first match on Google if you're located in Sweden, which is problematic.

Please boost for exposure.

Hot take: currency symbols are units, like kg or Hz. And units go AFTER the number, not before!

Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!

Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

The woke mind virus is so common in Sweden that almost every single public door here has the word 'drag' on it.

People who hate negative numbers will stop at nothing to avoid them..

The full landing sequence of #Chandrayaan3

I wrote a python script to undo the frame blending from the original video and then upscaled the images with AI.
The video is at 120x playback speed, in reality this took about 66 minutes.

Credit: #ISRO / Simeon Schmauß

In its first announcement since June 26 (and possibly last ever post), Prigozhin's press center says he was buried privately at Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg. The site closed 30 minutes earlier, so reporters can't even verify this yet. https://t.me/concordgroup_official/1305

Globally we produce A LOT of #energy, but did you know the majority of fossil energy gets wasted? In the US alone, two-thirds of that energy is *wasted* as heat.

As Hannah Ritchie has pointed out, we don’t actually need to produce a low carbon equivalent of all of the coal, oil & gas we currently use.

That means we can decarbonize quickly by being less wasteful & more efficient. #ClimateChange #science

Visste inte att dom var kompisar

Fem år. Längre tid tar det alltså inte.

Oh, the time I’ve wasted clicking “accept cookies” in my rush to read a page

Turns out going through all the options and flipping every allegedly “legitimate interest” cookie to off is more satisfying and addictive than popping bubble wrap

I barely even read the actual pages anymore

The @DataColada team has been sued by Francesca Gino for exposing the fraudulent data underlying four of her papers (she claims defamation). The legal defense could get expensive. Please join us in providing financial support for their defense.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/uhbka-support-data-coladas-legal-defense?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.

@asociologist I was just reading https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

“‘ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.’ Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong. … Even when the answer has a glaring error, the paper stated, two out of 12 participants still marked the response preferred.”

We know they’re wrong but we still like the answers it gives!